Women in Wills celebrate with their final meeting of the year
The Women in Wills group joined together to meet for the final time this year to celebrate with a festive themed event. The group, which has been growing in number throughout lockdown, shared some fun stories, heard some positive news stories from Emily Chalke of Ella’s charity, while enjoying a festive themed pet competition – […]
Communication is KEY
Good communication is key to having a successful business and so how we choose to communicate with our clients is vital. Recently, at Countrywide Tax & Trust Corporation Ltd we wanted to build a new, safe, compliant and efficient method for a 2- way communication system between ourselves and our clients. We needed to partner with […]
Free webinar: 2020 in review
Kings Court Trust’s last webinar of the year, taking place on Wednesday 16th December at 1pm, will be hosted by Technical Manager, Nigel Merchant, who will discuss interesting industry updates from 2020. Nigel will explore remote Will witnessing, COVID-19’s impact on the Wills and probate industry, Inheritance Tax receipts, and more. Nigel will also talk […]
Protect yourself, your firm and client by conducting a Certainty Will Search
Conducting a Certainty Will Search ensures that you have done everything you could to locate the last valid Will of the deceased. It is important to not take the risk by continuing to distribute an estate on the assumption that you are in possession of the last Will and to safeguard this by advising that […]
Embracing the digital era
2020 has seen the most significant innovation in the wills and probate sector for many years, such is the impact of the global pandemic. In recent months, the trickle of digitisation has built up a head of steam with many documents such as deeds and discharges executed online, the launch of my HMCTS digitising some […]
SFE Online Conference shares industry insights
The Solicitors for the Elderly (SFE), held their annual conference on the virtual stage this week, and helped delegates hope for the best whilst preparing for the worst. Michael Culver, Chair of the Board at SFE welcomed all of the delegates to the event, and thanked them for opting to attend a virtual event rather […]
Extension for paper probate applications until new year
Paper probate applications will now be accepted into the new year, as some practitioners are struggling to sign up to the new MyHMCTS online system. On 1 December, a letter was sent to three professional bodies in which HMCTS acknowledged that they needed more time to resolve some of the issues, and as such is […]
Looking ahead to 2021
Elizabeth Rimmer is CEO at LawCare It’s been a very difficult and challenging year for all of us. No-one has remained unaffected by the fall out of the global pandemic and its impact on our health, our relationships, our livelihoods and our mental health. For most of us this has been the most significant event […]
Children cut out of father’s Will
A woman cut her step-children out of their late father’s Will, going against his wishes that they all inherit equally both his wealth and that of their late grandmother, a sum of £300,000. Lulu Jones, was Roger Jones’ second wife. Roger had four children from a previous marriage and Lulu had two children. All of […]